Surveillance

Politics & Society

Surveillance: What is it good for?

Online monitoring raises serious questions about privacy and rights, but where justified it can be used for good if organisations consider wider issues like transparency and fairness

Sciences & Technology

TikTok captures your face

TikTok is hugely popular. But its latest decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity and privacy

Arts & Culture

Poetry as a surveillance survival guide

In an age of pervasive surveillance and social media promotion, reading poetry matters more than ever as we try to come to terms with our technologically-led society

Health & Medicine

Privacy and health: The lessons of COVID-19

Despite public support, the COVIDSafe app failed to reach its download target. So, what are the implications for future policies that need citizens to share information?

Sciences & Technology

When tools for a health emergency become tools of oppression

Surveillance technology deployed to combat COVID-19 can quickly be used against civil freedoms

Politics & Society

The cost to freedom in the war against COVID-19

Mass digital surveillance is increasingly being used around the world to control COVID-19. But once the pandemic fades, will the surveillance stay?

Politics & Society

AI: It’s time for the law to respond

The law is always behind technology but given the sweeping changes heralded by new technologies, legislators need to get in front of the issue

Health & Medicine

Sensors and big data are showing how our minds work

Big data and personal sensing technology are revolutionising psychology, opening new frontiers in our understanding of how our minds work and how we treat mental illness

Sciences & Technology

Four myths about insertable tech and why they’re wrong

As headlines proclaim that microchips injected under the skin could allow employers to track our every move, the reality is very different

Business & Economics

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Podcast

The boss’ gaze: Workplace surveillance and what it means

Management expert Graham Sewell on the evolution of workplace surveillance, what it’s really measuring, and why it’s so unsettling